Hi chaps, need help with this one. My bruvver has picked up one of these toughbooks. Puppy 528 is installed on the hd as a full install. The problem is Puppy locks up when I try to install a pcmia wireless card. It doesnt find the Belkin usb at all.

wireless chip set. You should not be getting a freeze with 512MB of ram, unless there is something wrong on the hard ware on your cf-27 that I know of.. Pentium 3 is fast enough also. I run a IBM a22m with about the same specs as your cf-27 with a Belkin wireless pcmcia card. No lockups.

Which makes me wonder. When do you insert the pcmcia card. Before power up or after you boot up?

Tried it with both Barry's and Dougal's and tried it with card in place before booting and inserting it after boot. The card works in another pc . The card is not recognized and the initial network connection alert shows no connections. The freeze happens as soon as I use the network manager to set up the driver.

Cant test your suggestion at the moment as I havent got the pc here.

Will email our kid and get him to try it. Computers aren't his strong point when it comes to dabbling with the inards.

Hi all,
just called in at my brother's house. He's bought a new usb wifi connector. This one is recognised using the ndiswrapper and the xp driver from the installation disk. Checked Htop as suggested but nothing showed up and memory usage stayed around the 70meg range and cpu usage was more or less static.

thanks for the suggestions and help.

Jock

edit

had to add acpi=off to menu1st in order to stop the pc rebooting itself.

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